This was basically the case in the “sweepstakes” he did leading up the presidential election. They admitted in court that the winners were predetermined and that nobody actually had a chance to win, so it wasn’t buying votes.

“PORN” and “Esc” are not letters.

If they didn’t have double standards they’d have no standards at all.

Negative, it is not available on my OS.

Lmao who downvoted me cause my phone OS doesn’t have a feature? Wild.

That’s not what was suggested.

“on Android” is a mostly useless statement. There are many flavours of it and they do not all behave the same. My phone does not have this.

Reddit (and Lemmy/Mbin) is just a kind of forum.

Please don’t compare Homer to that fuckface.

Whatever you may think of the parents for this, I don’t suspect the other children would be much better off in the foster care system.

Honestly not even completely unbelievable.

You may well be right, and I don’t mean to defend Discord or even the feature. I just think a lot of people here were misunderstanding exactly what it was that was being introduced to mobile.

I think people are reading the headline only and thinking this will be mandatory ad views on mobile to, like, just use Discord.

This is an existing thing on desktop already that they are porting over to mobile. It’s an optional ad you can choose to watch in order to gain in-game rewards for various games. Or sometimes a discord profile frame or something.

Looks like no video calls or screensharing? If so, unfortunately won’t be a viable replacement for me.

Also, looks like there are self hosting options but they seem clumsy? From what I read, and happy to be corrected, a self hosted instance is completely separated from the rest of the Revolt ecosystem, meaning new accounts and everything for each.

I’m also curious how they will upkeep the servers without any kind of monetization.

I mean, they do get “rewards”. Discord has been doing quests for a while now, even video ones, on desktop. It sounds like maybe this is just the existing feature coming to mobile? For example, I watched an ad for MH Wilds to get in game items.

It’s pretty strange, come to think of it. Who exactly is this convincing to buy MH Wilds? I watched it because I already had MH Wilds. So, for me, I watched an ad for a game I already bought for some items. But, why would I do that if I didn’t already have the game?

Weird lol.

“it’s somehow worth money” is basically true of all fiat currencies. It’s worth what the consensus agrees it is worth.

(this comment should not be read as a defense of crypto)

What is this from?

Curse of Monkey Island.

Mumble does not look like a replacement for all the things I use Discord for.

Personally, Discord has facilitated a long distance relationship with my now wife, and nearly ten years of weekly TTRPG games. I don’t mind the cost because they cannot provide that service for free forever, and I think it’s worth it for what I get out of it. The other benefits they add for paying are almost just bonuses to me after that.

That’s not a dilemma for atheists because atheists aren’t the ones claiming there’s an omnipotent being guiding everything.

Also, you can be both an atheist and an agnostic. They cover different things. I’m fairly certain you’d consider yourself an atheist in regards to the sun god Ra.